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Starting the final lap
All of the material I have for my second year at Leeds has now been covered in previous posts. There was a course on the History of Criticism, about which I remember little, except that we complained because we couldn’t hear the lecturer – no microphones in those days. So we move on now to…
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Paradise Lost in Leeds
I am way behind on the account of life as an English undergraduate fifty years ago, so much so that it’s really fifty-two years ago now. Anyway, here’s the latest instalment. On Scheme C, we were obliged in our second year to take a course on Milton. The reading list was uncompromising. Here it is:…
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Middling English
The second year course for those of us on Scheme C was quite mainstream, but we still had to tackle the successor to Anglo-Saxon, which was a course in Middle English, excluding Chaucer. Our texts were Medieval English Lyrics by R.T. Davies, Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for poetry; Malory’s Morte d’Arthur…